Friday, April 6
Forum Room, 3rd Floor, Lamont Library, Harvard Yard
11 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
9:00: Welcome and breakfast
9:30: Opening remarks
9:40: Keynote by Prof. Sandra Ponzanesi, "Call Me by My Name: Mediterranean Transmissions”
10:50: Coffee break
11:10: Panel 1: Laws of Motion: Shifting Legal and Political Paradigms
"Centrifugal Force and the Mouth of a Shark: Toward a Movement-Oriented Poetics"
Kevin Potter (University of Vienna)
"Can the Migrant Be Translated? The Politics of Translation in Italy’s Refugee Status Determination Interviews"
Tommaso Manfredini (Columbia University)
12:00: Lunch
13:10: Panel 2: Voices from the Periphery: The Surfacing of Migrant Identity
"Can the Migrant Hear Themselves?
Abner Santos (Brown University)
"Writing in Between: the case of Emanuel Carnevali’s 'American' poetry"
Silvia Guslandi (University of Chicago)
14:00: Coffee break
14:15: Panel 3: Trying to Find Home: Self-Fashioning between Communities
"Alienation and metropolitan migrations in Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de... and Alain Gomis’s L’Afrance"
Xavier Lee (Yale University)
"The role of Château Rouge in the African migrant odyssey"
Edouard d'Espalungue d'Arros (Louisiana State University)
"L’Últim Patriarca: El Hachmi’s Postcolonial Narrative of Language Migration Against the Patriarchy"
Carlos Yebra López (New York University)
15:30: Coffee break
16:00: Author reading/lecture with Shenaz Patel, "What words do we use when speaking about migrants? "
17:00: Closing remarks
18:00 Reception
Saturday, April 7
Forum Room, 3rd Floor, Lamont Library, Harvard Yard
9:00: Welcome and breakfast
9:20: Opening remarks
9:30: Keynote by Prof. Amy Sara Carroll, "On the Lower Frequencies//Genres of Humanity"
10:30: Coffee break
10:45: Panel 4: Beyond the Border: Unheard, Undocumented
"How to narrate the invisible or Speculative Border Fiction"
Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez (Cornell University)
"Childhood Arrivals to the United States Speak through Digital Storytelling"
Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana (University of California, Davis)
"Exclusion, Embodiment, and the Undeserved Mexican Migrant"
Allison Estrada (Harvard University/University of California, Los Angeles)
12:00: Lunch
13:30: Panel 5: Neither Here nor There: Remittances, Revenues, Returns
"(Of the Sea) To Flow Back: migrant flow as revenue stream"
Drew Johnson (University of Michigan)
"What are the repercussions of sending Haitians back to Haiti?"
Carlo Handy Charles (York University)
"Arquitectura sin arquitectos: El Salvador’s Diasporic Architecture as Cultural Remittance"
Gabriela Poma (Harvard University)
14:45: Coffee break
15:00: Screening and Roundtable Discussion with Centro Presente
16:00: Closing remarks
18:00: Reception
Forum Room, 3rd Floor, Lamont Library, Harvard Yard
11 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
9:00: Welcome and breakfast
9:30: Opening remarks
9:40: Keynote by Prof. Sandra Ponzanesi, "Call Me by My Name: Mediterranean Transmissions”
10:50: Coffee break
11:10: Panel 1: Laws of Motion: Shifting Legal and Political Paradigms
"Centrifugal Force and the Mouth of a Shark: Toward a Movement-Oriented Poetics"
Kevin Potter (University of Vienna)
"Can the Migrant Be Translated? The Politics of Translation in Italy’s Refugee Status Determination Interviews"
Tommaso Manfredini (Columbia University)
12:00: Lunch
13:10: Panel 2: Voices from the Periphery: The Surfacing of Migrant Identity
"Can the Migrant Hear Themselves?
Abner Santos (Brown University)
"Writing in Between: the case of Emanuel Carnevali’s 'American' poetry"
Silvia Guslandi (University of Chicago)
14:00: Coffee break
14:15: Panel 3: Trying to Find Home: Self-Fashioning between Communities
"Alienation and metropolitan migrations in Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de... and Alain Gomis’s L’Afrance"
Xavier Lee (Yale University)
"The role of Château Rouge in the African migrant odyssey"
Edouard d'Espalungue d'Arros (Louisiana State University)
"L’Últim Patriarca: El Hachmi’s Postcolonial Narrative of Language Migration Against the Patriarchy"
Carlos Yebra López (New York University)
15:30: Coffee break
16:00: Author reading/lecture with Shenaz Patel, "What words do we use when speaking about migrants? "
17:00: Closing remarks
18:00 Reception
Saturday, April 7
Forum Room, 3rd Floor, Lamont Library, Harvard Yard
9:00: Welcome and breakfast
9:20: Opening remarks
9:30: Keynote by Prof. Amy Sara Carroll, "On the Lower Frequencies//Genres of Humanity"
10:30: Coffee break
10:45: Panel 4: Beyond the Border: Unheard, Undocumented
"How to narrate the invisible or Speculative Border Fiction"
Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez (Cornell University)
"Childhood Arrivals to the United States Speak through Digital Storytelling"
Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana (University of California, Davis)
"Exclusion, Embodiment, and the Undeserved Mexican Migrant"
Allison Estrada (Harvard University/University of California, Los Angeles)
12:00: Lunch
13:30: Panel 5: Neither Here nor There: Remittances, Revenues, Returns
"(Of the Sea) To Flow Back: migrant flow as revenue stream"
Drew Johnson (University of Michigan)
"What are the repercussions of sending Haitians back to Haiti?"
Carlo Handy Charles (York University)
"Arquitectura sin arquitectos: El Salvador’s Diasporic Architecture as Cultural Remittance"
Gabriela Poma (Harvard University)
14:45: Coffee break
15:00: Screening and Roundtable Discussion with Centro Presente
16:00: Closing remarks
18:00: Reception